Gate-hinge.



J. HARRISON.

GATE HINGE.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 15. 1915.

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Pat'entedOct. 10, 1916.

Application filedOctober 16, 1915." Serial No; 56,293;

To all whom it may concern Be'it known that I, JOHN HARnIsoN,--a citizenof the United States, residing at'Malad City, in the county of Oneidaand State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGate-Hinges; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The primary object of this invention is to improve the construction ofgate hinge disclosed in Patent No. 1,035,584, granted to me August 13th,1912, by providing a gate hinge that can be more readily andconveniently applied to a gate and gate post, will admit of the castercarried by the lower end of the gate having freer travel over theground, so as to relieve the hinge and the gate post from considerablestrain.

Another object of the invention is to provide a gate hinge, for carryingout the above object, that will be of simple construction, cheap tomanufacture, durable and eflicient in operation.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodimentof my invention of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had to the accompany? ing drawing, forming a part thereof, inwhich:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a gate and gate post, showing the gatehinge connected thereto, Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the hingeremoved from the gate, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a stud carried bythe gate post and adapted to have connection with the hinge on the gate,and Fig. 4 is a vertical section through the gate hinge.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the

letter A designates a gate, B the gate post,

and C the lower hinge for the gate.

My improved hinge includes an elongated metallic plate 1, carried by thetop rail of the gate, and positioned at the lower edge thereof, andprovided with openings 2 for the reception of fastening elements 3, bymeans of which the plate is held secure to the gate.- The rear end ofthe plate lies flush with the rear panel of the gate, and thel0ngitudinal edges of the plate are bent outwardly and downwardly, inthe direction of each other, asat I and 5, and are spaced from the plateso as to provide a guide 6, the said longitudinal edges 4 and 5 beingalso spaced from each other, so as to provide a'longitudinal passage 7Located within the guide channel 6, is an elongated slide 8. This slide8 has a longitudinal rib 9 integrally formed on the outer side thereof,and extending at right angles to the slide, and into the longitudinalpassage 7. Formed integrally with the outer side of the slide and at therear end thereof, and with the rear end of the longitudinal rib 9, isone end of a laterally extending lug 10, the free end of which projectsa considerable distance beyond the slide and the rib 9. The lug 10 isprovided, at a point beyond the plane of the rib 10, with a circularopening 11, the walls of the opening being provided at diametricallyopposite points with recesses 12.

Positioned at the upper end of the gate post is an angular shapedbracket 13, one end of which is secured to the post, by means offastening elements 14, and the other end extends at right angles to thepost and in the direction of the rear end ofthe gate and has its freeend provided with a vertically disposed cylindrical shaped stud 15,adapted to be loosely received by the circular opening 11 in the plate10, as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing. The upper end of the stud 15 hasa laterally extending projection 16 thereon, which is adapted to overliethe plate 10 and in spaced relation thereto and prevent the accidentaldisconnection of the plate from the stud when the gate is movedupwardly. When the gate is being mounted on the gate post, the gate isheld in a position whereby one of the recesses 12 will register with theprojection 16 on the stud, and the gate moved downwardly so as to causethe opening 11 to receive the stud l5 and also to cause the companionparts of the hinge C to be connected.

In use, when the gate is moved to open position and the roller or casterD, which is carried by the front end of the gate, travels over anyobstruction, or up and down grade the slide 8 will travel back and forthin the guide 6, thereby permitting the gate to have vertical rockingmovement, and prevent strain from being exerted on the post and theupper hinge.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new is:

In a gate, the combination of a guide plate, said guide plate having itslongitudinal edges bent outwardly and downwardly toward each other, saidlongitudinal edges With said rib, said right angular lug having 10 beingspaced from each other to form a lona recess therein adapted to engage apintle.

gitudinal passage, a slide associated with In testimony whereof I affixmy signature i ment therein, a longitudinal rib formed on said guide andfree for longitudinal movein presence of two Witnesses.

said slide and extending laterally between JOHN HARRISON the downwardbent edges of the plate, a Witnesses:

right angular lug projecting laterally from D. J. LEWIS,

one end of the slide and formed integral J. R. THOMAS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained'tor five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. O."

